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‘A woman should not feel lonely after giving birth’

Life changes around pregnancy make women more vulnerable to mental illness including depression and anxiety. In Kazakhstan, nearly 60 per cent of mothers experience postpartum depression, among the highest rates recorded globally. Diana Madyraimova is a 35-year-old mother of three from Taraz, Kazakhstan who experi...

15 November 2021

“No need to risk the lives of children”

Within the immunization programme, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), UNICEF in Kazakhstan launched the “Vaccine” project telling the stories of people who have faced returning diseases. The project focuses on myths about vaccination and the challenges of immunization in Kazakhstan. Wi...

"During crisis we realized, health is the most important thing."

For thousands of pregnant women in Kazakhstan, pregnancy coincided with the pandemic and the introduction of quarantine measures, which can vary from week to week. UNICEF estimates that around 116,000,000 children will be born worldwide during the pandemic.1 During the pandemic, 498,367 children were born in Kazak...